I can't help but notice that after installing the new Samsung Magician 4.4
two major things have happened.
First one is this - http://i2.minus.com/ifQwxzvF4gVjY.png
Those speeds are so unrealistic but for some reason other programs
can actually confirm that the speeds are really that high.. idk what
the hell is going on with that but i don't see a big difference overall.

Second thing is that after i applied this update, for some reason my games
started acting really weird. for example dota 2, it freezes for 5 seconds
and then it continues, that has happened twice now, Chivalry did the same
thing today, but battlefield 4 freezes and then just "stopped working"
that usually happens after 20 minutes of gameplay, now i should mention
that all of the games are on my HDD, i have only my windows on the SSD
and this can kinda break the logic to why i think the ssd's software is faulty
but i haven't installed anything else except the magician 4.4 since this
started happening, no drivers or anything... So that kinda makes no
sense right now.

I can't help but notice that after installing the new Samsung Magician 4.4
two major things have happened.
First one is this - http://i2.minus.com/ifQwxzvF4gVjY.png
Those speeds are so unrealistic but for some reason other programs
can actually confirm that the speeds are really that high.. idk what
the hell is going on with that but i don't see a big difference overall.

Second thing is that after i applied this update, for some reason my games
started acting really weird. for example dota 2, it freezes for 5 seconds
and then it continues, that has happened twice now, Chivalry did the same
thing today, but battlefield 4 freezes and then just "stopped working"
that usually happens after 20 minutes of gameplay, now i should mention
that all of the games are on my HDD, i have only my windows on the SSD
and this can kinda break the logic to why i think the ssd's software is faulty
but i haven't installed anything else except the magician 4.4 since this
started happening, no drivers or anything... So that kinda makes no
sense right now.

Im not sure how you went about installing the newer update, but i fully uninstalled the program first, possibly ran cc cleaner, rebooted, then installed the newer version....sometimes things work better if fully uninstalled first and then installing the newer version...aside from the massive speed increase i have yet to notice any issues yet.
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I will do some thorough testing in bf4 tonight and give you a follow up if i can find any issues on my end

Im not sure how you went about installing the newer update, but i fully uninstalled the program first, possibly ran cc cleaner, rebooted, then installed the newer version....sometimes things work better if fully uninstalled first and then installing the newer version...aside from the massive speed increase i have yet to notice any issues yet.
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I will do some thorough testing in bf4 tonight and give you a follow up if i can find any issues on my end

For me usually now it crashes after the second map, never happened before the update.

I've got the same recorded speeds even on my Marvell 9123 5Gb/s interface. Seems quite fast.

However, I was getting complete PC freezes which were unrecoverable and these started with Nvidia driver 337.50 beta and continued with 337.88 WHQL. I haven't tried 340.43 but there is something conflicting with Nvidia's new driver architecture on my system and the few replies on the Nvidia forum which seemed to mirror my issue had a Samsung SSD included in the signature spec.
I just wonder if it's a conflict with the Samsung RAM caching technique.

You could try driver 335.23 WHQL which was the last before they 'optimised' the CPU/GPU driver coding and see if your issue persists...

I've got the same recorded speeds even on my Marvell 9123 5Gb/s interface. Seems quite fast.

However, I was getting complete PC freezes which were unrecoverable and these started with Nvidia driver 337.50 beta and continued with 337.88 WHQL. I haven't tried 340.43 but there is something conflicting with Nvidia's new driver architecture on my system and the few replies on the Nvidia forum which seemed to mirror my issue had a Samsung SSD included in the signature spec.
I just wonder if it's a conflict with the Samsung RAM caching technique.

You could try driver 335.23 WHQL which was the last before they 'optimised' the CPU/GPU driver coding and see if your issue persists...

I'm not with nvidia and the issue came on the date the update for magician came, 7/1/2014, i remember that's the date my battlefield 4 started crashing i got logs of how I left every second game because of the freeze(starting on that date). It has nothing to do with the gpu driver for me, its the magician I'm sure of it, tho
i uninstalled it and installed it again, ill see if that fixes it fo me.

I can confirm the speed increases with Magician 4.4. One thing I noticed is if you have multiple Samsung SSD's they all have speed increases with this new Magician, though not as great as the one you enable the RAPID feature.

I can't help but notice that after installing the new Samsung Magician 4.4
two major things have happened.
First one is this - http://i2.minus.com/ifQwxzvF4gVjY.png
Those speeds are so unrealistic but for some reason other programs
can actually confirm that the speeds are really that high.. idk what
the hell is going on with that but i don't see a big difference overall.

Second thing is that after i applied this update, for some reason my games
started acting really weird. for example dota 2, it freezes for 5 seconds
and then it continues, that has happened twice now, Chivalry did the same
thing today, but battlefield 4 freezes and then just "stopped working"
that usually happens after 20 minutes of gameplay, now i should mention
that all of the games are on my HDD, i have only my windows on the SSD
and this can kinda break the logic to why i think the ssd's software is faulty
but i haven't installed anything else except the magician 4.4 since this
started happening, no drivers or anything... So that kinda makes no
sense right now.

well, i may have spoke to soon....i did encounter a weird glitch tonight while playing bf4. I did finally correct it self but it was something i have never had happen before. I will report back if it happens again.....but it was like a terrible stutter that lasted for about 30 seconds, and it happened while i was flying a scout, so you can imagine it sucked hard.....ended up dying try to land it....could very well be related to the issues you had discovered

No problems with this update.Better to disable Rapid Mode, restart, uninstall old version, restart, run ccleaner, restart, manually check system for leftover folders/reg entries, install new version, restart, enable rapid mode, restart.Works just as good as 4.3, browsing in windows may be a bit snappier but could be placebo.Also set my os optimization for max reliability instead of manual.I'm on Win7 SP1 x64.

No problems with this update.Better to disable Rapid Mode, restart, uninstall old version, restart, run ccleaner, restart, manually check system for leftover folders/reg entries, install new version, restart, enable rapid mode, restart.Works just as good as 4.3, browsing in windows may be a bit snappier but could be placebo.Also set my os optimization for max reliability instead of manual.I'm on Win7 SP1 x64.

what you described is my default way of doing upgrades...can you test bf4 to see if all is ok on your end?

And i have not encountered any 5 second freezes, i should mention i had them only on valve games, csgo/dota 2, battlefield doesn't count because it crashed there after the freeze.

well i did more testing....and honestly i haven't encountered any more glitches....starting to look like you have possibly an app on your pc thats giving it trouble...not sure what to make of it.....i have heard it uses much more ram cached....possibly using to much for your pc...definitely worth looking into doing restore from a good system image or even a new install......really just throwing ideas out there...god luck in getting it worked out...guess if all else you can go back to the older version.....not like the new one truly makes it faster cause in reality it just shows higher benchmarks....and we know that doesn't really mean its faster...more like bragging rights is all

So the insane speeds are the result of enabling RAPID mode in Magician.
The errors and freezes you see may be one result of enabling RAPID but there can be more reasons.
From my experience, the AMD Chipsets are more likely to cause problems with Magician. Mostly because of the driver. You may try to switch from AMD AHCI driver to msahci. Just google, there are lots of guides.
Another thing is the so called "optimisation" from Magician. The theory is very good, but it does not work properly on every System/Hardware configuration.
And keep in mind, optimisation settings and RAPID are also running, if Magician don't. RAPID will run as System service.
If nothing else is working you may want to reinstall your OS and keep away from Magician software.
I just backed up my system and will try the 4.4 Magician myself and see, if I can find something.